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African Coup Events Data, 1986-1990 (ICPSR 6869)

Principal Investigator(s):Wang, T.Y.

Summary:

This survey focuses on coup events in African countries
where a state's military, security, or police force was involved.
Annual data were collected for coup events between 1986 and 1990 in 45
sub-Saharan African countries. This study replicates McGowan's coding
scheme and method of collecting African coup data (see the Related
Publication section). Variables include number of successful,
attempted, and plotted military coups, as well as year and country
name.

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Methodology

Data Source:

Index to THE NEW YORK TIMES, Keesing's Contemporary
Archives, AFRICAN RESEARCH BULLETIN, and Foreign Broadcast Information
Services (McGowan, 1986: A-3)

Extent of Processing: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of
disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major
statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to
these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection: